On behalf of the entire team and everyone in the community who contributed, we are pleased to announce the general availability of Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.15 and 3.1.3.

Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.15 includes a few improvements and bug fixes. In addition, this version now supports the ability to call the enforceRebalance on the Kafka consumer. This release will be included as part of the upcoming Spring Boot 3.1.10 release.

Spring for Apache Kafka 3.1.3 ships with some new features, enhancements, bug fixes and documentation improvements. This release will be part of the upcoming Spring Boot 3.2.4 release.

We also released the second milestone for Spring for Apache Kafka 3.2.0 (3.2.0-M2). This milestone release includes a number of new additions as features, enhancements, bug fixes and documentation changes. Some notable improvements are the support for non-blocking retries when using KafkaListener as a class-level annotation, a new seek API based on offsets computed from a user-provided function, more enhancements in the Kafka Stream interactive query support, etc. This milestone release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.3.0-M3 release.

We want to thank everyone who contributed to these releases.

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